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Introduction newsletter n°7, July 2022
Dear SlaFMig readers, After a few months of absence, the SlaFMig/EMiFo action-research program is back to share with you the latest activities! On the research front, the members of the Donkosira association have been the most active. First of all, they participated in a qualitative research training with researchers Marie-Christine Deleigne and Marie Rodet in May 2022. On this occasion,
Training of the Donkosira team in qualitative research, May 2022
From May 16 to 20, a training session on qualitative research methods was held in Bamako for members of the Donkosira association. Supervised by Dr. Marie-Christine Deleigne and Dr. Marie Rodet, this meeting aimed to strengthen the skills of the Donkosira team in order to conduct the qualitative component of the socio-economic survey in Mambiri. Intrinsically participatory, the training began
The International Conference on Slavery in Africa in Yaoundé, April 2022
The international conference ‘Knowledge and Decompartmentalization’ about ‘Slavery in Africa’ was held at the University of Yaoundé (Cameroon) from April 19 to 21, 2022. Mamadou Sène Cissé and Mariam Coulibaly, secretary general and treasurer of the Donkosira association, were able to participate. The aim of this meeting was to demonstrate the historical importance of slavery in Africa, its weight in
The workshop in Gilleleje (Denmark), May-June 2022
The SlaFMig/EMiFo team was able to meet in Denmark from May 27 to June 3. The members of the Donkosira association (Mamadou Sène Cissé, Mariam Coulibaly and Assa Waly Diakité) and the research team (Dr. Marie Rodet, Dr. Lotte Pelckmans, Dr. Marie-Christine Deleigne, Aline Desdevises) met in Copenhagen before going to Gilleleje, where the workshop was held. The first days
Organization of a third SlaFMig advocacy workshop, Paris (Gennevilliers), June 2022
As a follow-up to the Bamako and Kayes workshops in 2021, an advocacy training workshop was held from June 4-7, 2022 in Gennevilliers with anti-slavery activists from the associations Gambana RMFP Mali and Ganbanaxuun Fedde ARMEPES Mauritania from the diaspora in France. The objective of the workshop was to strengthen the capacities of the members of these movements in advocacy
Handing over of the statistical sheets to the authorities of Mambiri, June 2022
The Donkosira team is back in Mambiri to continue the qualitative part of the socio-economic survey! On this occasion, they handed over the preliminary results of the quantitative survey to the governor of Kita, the prefect, the village chief and the president of the women’s association of Mambiri.
Visite de courtoisie de l’Assocition Donko Sira au Gouverneur de Kita
Une mission de l’association DONKOSIRA conduite par son Secrétaire Général Monsieur Cissé Mamadou Sène, séjourne à Mambiri dans la commune de Souransan cercle de Kita du 17 au 24 Juin 2022. Chemin faisant vers cette localité ou l’association intervient depuis 2021, la mission à fait escale à kita ou elle a rendu une visite de courtoisie au Gouverneur de la
Advocacy workshop in Bamako, Mali by Nolwenn Marconet, October 2021
From Monday, October 18 to Friday, October 22, 2021, the SlaFMig project, thanks to the association Donkosira and the National Human Rights Commission of Mali (CNDH), brought together in Bamako key actors in the fight against descent-based slavery, including activists, journalists, bloggers, civil servants and researchers. The workshop was held at the Faculty of Public Law and focused on advocacy.
Interviews with three women activists of RMFP-Gambana in Mali, by Lotte Pelckmans and Sophia Stille, December 2021
Finally having had the chance to go to Mali for the Point Sud Conference in the first week of December, Lotte Pelckmans and Sophia Stille seized the opportunity to conduct some fieldwork on women in the Malian branch of the Gambana movement, called RMFP-Gambana (in what follows we will use Gambana as a shortcut). We interviewed and filmed the women
International Point Sud Conference in Bamako, Mali, from 1-4 December 2021
From December 1-4, the workshop “Mobility, Mobilisation and Displacement in ‘post-slavery’ West-Africa” took place in Bamako, Mali. Organised by Lotte Pelckmans (SlaFMig / University of Copenhagen) and Paolo Gaibazzi (University of Bayreuth) through the research center Point Sud, different actors came together to exchange and discuss the topics of mobility, descent-based slavery and its repercussions in different countries and contexts.
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